Former UConn basketball coach Kevin Ollie won his arbitration case Thursday against the university and will be owed more than $11 million. Ollie, 49, spent six seasons as UConn’s coach before he was dismissed in March 2018 amid an initiation of “disciplinary measures” by the school as it sought to terminate him for cause and avoid paying his buyout.
UConn “violated the collective bargaining agreement when it terminated Kevin Ollie without just cause,” arbitrator Mark Irvings ruled, according to the Hartford Courant. UConn was ordered to pay Ollie “$11,157,032.95 within the next 10 business days.” As a member of the University of Connecticut’s branch of the American Association of University Professors, Ollie had additional protections beyond…
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